In Re the Estate of Strout

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Cortland County (Campbell, S.), entered April 15, 2015, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to SCPA article 14, to determine that respondent waived the right of election.

Gary L. Strout Sr. (hereinafter decedent) died in May 2012, leaving a last will and testament, dated December 17, 2008, that left a vehicle and personal property to respondent, his wife of over 20 years, devised his real property in equal shares to his two children and left the remainder of his estate to his son. On the same date, both decedent and…